Ideas with storing electrons and or light in a container
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    mranachi
    3w ago 100%

    Ok, so I think the core concept you're building from is that electrons are particles, thus can be placed in a jar like marbles for later use (or gas). However, this is an overly simplistic analogy, and although electrons can be 'stored', this presents some challenges. Matter isn't a 'physical barrier' to electrons. You have an insulating container, you put and electron inside it, the electron can travel to the outside of it freely.

    This concept is not as exotic as you might think, when you rub someone's hair with a balloon, you pick up electrons on the balloon. Your balloon is a container of electrons, it's statically charged. This isn't just a fun party trick. Things like van der graph generators, and now pelletron particle accelerators use this 'electron container' concept to generate big voltages (typically millions of volts).

    Capacitors store electrons in a non static way. You have two metal plates that don't touch, on one side you have an excess of electrons and on the other side you have an excess of positive charge (absence if electrons). If you connect these to plates together they rush to meet.

    Batteries are different again, they store electrons in 'a chemical reaction'. I.e. you have two compounds that will react, but need to transfer electrons for that to occur. The only path for that transfer to occur is via the terminals of the battery.

    Light always moves at the speed of light of it's medium. Storing it requires to first address that challenge.

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  • Who Owns Nebula?
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    mranachi
    1mo ago 100%

    "Unfortunately, without access to one of their contracts, we can’t know for sure what power the broader group of creators actually has. It’s possible that the terms are so favorable for creators that their shadow equity is as good as actual ownership. It’s equally possible, however, that the system was set up in order to keep any meaningful power away from the creators."

    I guess this kind of mixes up some concepts when we ask is nebula really creator owned.

    1. How does the equity get shared upon a liquidation.
    2. Can a creator cash in their shadow equity without liquidation.
    3. Do creators have 'the potential' for governance input.

    I see some positive in the fact that they offer ownership of the top holding company to big creators as an option. The most invested have the full protection. I can see reasons for having a two tierd system with phantom stocks, mostly in making adding new content creators easy.

    But I guess the question really is, is nebula willing to share standard terms of their creator contract?

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    [Accursed Farms] Giant FAQ on The European Initiative to Stop Destroying Games
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    mranachi
    2mo ago 100%

    Well your first statement is a subtle strawman. Ross said this way is the only way, because no one else is trying, not that it was the right way.

    Secondly, fallacy fallacy, just because it's a false dichotomy doesn't mean it's not also correct. Can anyone just start up another initiative now? Not technically, but practically. Or would any serious attempt just join this movement to add to the momentum. Then if this fails, when can another attempt be made, how long till the 'political will' burnt by this campaign is regenerated?

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  • Is the act of romantically approaching women out of date?
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    mranachi
    2mo ago 75%

    It's such a tired line. You know what everyone finds creepy, people who don't respect your personal boundaries and don't understand basic concepts of consent. Neither Money nor looks can make up for that in the slightest.

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  • Why does traditional masculinity have such longevity, even among younger boys?
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    mranachi
    3mo ago 23%

    I'd say if you are concerned, then the door is open to start a career in psychology research. But I think you'd struggle to move your emotions and pre-convinced notions out of your own way.

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  • How to get rid of the Indian curse?
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    mranachi
    3mo ago 100%

    I can't say I know what I'd do if I were in your situation. But many people throughout history have chosen to write those books, and they have suffered for that choice, but they have also driven change.

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  • If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe
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    mranachi
    3mo ago 100%

    Care to explain your point with some detail?

    If this fails, I doubt we'll see a second proposal. So I think it would be fair to measure any arguments you make as why no action is better than the proposal.

    Correct me if I am wrong, but this petition doesn't decide the wording of any law just ensures it is brought to attention of EU lawmakers and discussed right?

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  • How to get rid of the Indian curse?
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    mranachi
    3mo ago 100%

    Things change slowly then all at once.

    Which is to say, the older generations are very set in their ways, but the new generations can be completely different.

    You say you can write a book, maybe you should. Detail all the things you see and don't like. Give me a voice to the people who think like you.

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    electrical engineer rule
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    mranachi
    3mo ago 100%

    No, I am not sure that I am.

    Photonic processing, whilst very cool and super exciting, is not a quantum thing... Maxwells equations are exceedingly classical.

    As for the rest it's transistor design optimisation, enabled predominantly by materials science and ASMLs EUV tech I guess:), but still exploits the same underlying 'quantum 1.0' physics.

    Spintronics (which could be what you mean by 2D) is for sure in-between (1.5?), leveraging spin for low energy compute.

    Quantum 2.0 is systems exploiting entanglement and superposition - i.e. qubits in a QPU (and a few quantum sensing applications).

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    electrical engineer rule
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    mranachi
    3mo ago 100%

    Good question. It would be application specific. I think evanescencnt wave coupling in EM radiation is considered " very classical" (whatever that actually means). But utilizing wave particle duality for tunneling devices is past quantum 1.0 (1.5 maybe?). However, superconductivity tunneling in Josephson junctions in a SQUID is closer to quantum 1.0, but 2.0 if used to generate entangled states for superconducting qbits for quantum computing.

    Clear as mud right?

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    electrical engineer rule
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    mranachi
    3mo ago 100%

    Can we trade?

    Oh my sweet summer child, a 100x yes, if only it were possible.

    But more seriously, if you're doing EE, the world of quantum is your oyster. Specialize in RF/MW design and implementation, we use it for qubit control, and you'll be highly valuable.

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    electrical engineer rule
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    mranachi
    3mo ago 100%

    Quantum Physics Postdoc here. Although technically correct this is also somewhat misleading. You need the band structure of solids, which is due to quantization and Pauli exclusion principle. The same quantum mechanics that explains why we did those strange electron energy levels for atoms in highschool. The majority of quantum mechanics, however, is not required: coherence, spin, entanglement, superposition. In the field we describe semiconductors as quantum 1.0, and devices that use entanglement and superposition (i.e. a quantum computer) as quantum 2.0, and smear everything else in-between. This

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  • Good question
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    mranachi
    3mo ago 83%

    I mean you last line sums it up, If on your balance you can weight the sum total of human systematic logical effort against your anecdotal experience then what is the point of discussion at all?

    And you want to know when that looks really ugly? When the faithful see things like "the light and hope brought by faith" and are blind to rivers of blood and human suffering that have not ceased to this day enabled and perpetuated by faith.

    It doesn't matter if there is a god, by the things done in God's name the concept of faith must be reject for humanities sake.

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  • ‘Not acceptable in a democracy’: UN expert condemns lengthy Just Stop Oil sentences
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    mranachi
    3mo ago 95%

    The entitlement of some people the moment they have a car. "Somebody took 20min of my time, they literally deserve 5 years in jail and to be assaulted in public.". You're sick, nothing your doing is important, sit in traffic and seeth. If you don't like it, take the train.

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  • I've been seeing a lot of bazzite recommendations recently, and it sure sounds great. An atomic fedora, gaming optimisations out of the box. It just works. We'll that's not been my experience for V-rising, and I wanted to share it incase others anyone else encounters the issues I did. First and foremost I am sure there major issue is the game, more than any given distro. I've been happily running arch on my home PC for 7 years. Its been great, no issues, I've loved it. As my free time decreased, that computer had become just for gaming. The maintenance debt was building up, I knew the dream run with arch must end. That end was V rising, crashed frequently, all kinds of stage behaviour. I assumed a vulkan issue, but couldn't easily find a fix, and didn't want to waste any more time on it. I went with Bazzite, but to no avail. The crashing problem got worse. Only now i had to deal with the sluggish flatpack versions of things. Its not that bad, but us a was a very noticeable change. If it had just been me, I think this is whereui would have given up. But I was playing with my wife and mate online, both of whom also use Linux and weren't having the crashing issue. On my wifes computer i had recently installed bazzite. It did have issues, mostly flickering which i chalked up to a too early switch to Wayland on a gtx1080. My mate was on mint, with a 3060 and v rising was working perfectly. I switched to mint (I am running and a 5700xt), and my problems were fixed just like that. Next was to solve the wife's woes, so I switched her to mint too. Which resulted in v rising not being able to load, freezing up the computer every attempted requiring a X restart. Didn't matter which version of the nvidia drivers i used. The flickering was gone though, so that was something. Pop-os was the solution, took a bit of understanding popshops preferred order of events to get nvidia drivers installed, but now all is fine. So the lesson I think i might have learned, old hardware and new (vulkan) games require unidentified settings to work and easiest solution is just distro hop till success. Big shout out to steams transfer over network functionality (i also needed to install bg3 each new distro, it ran fine on every combination but bazzite was noticably more flaky). It doesn't matter, but does any one have and ideas as to why v rising caused such headaches? 7 years a Linux gaming, and nothing has required more than a few hours of tinkering at most to get to work until this. Tldr. Needed a safe space to debreif, everything worked out in the end.

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